the ubud myth

• to call out the tendency to romanticise place based on outdated symbolic capital, especially when the lived reality shows entropy, not emergence. The “Ubud myth” is one of those post-2008 spiritual-tourist fantasies that many still circulate long after its actual ground has eroded.
• Ubud. Greenwashed dystopia; extractive wellness industry with zero civic coherence. No regenerative culture visible on the ground.